[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12533]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           LIFE IMITATES ART

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, sometimes art imitates life. Sometimes life 
imitates art. I think today life is imitating art.
  I often reflect on motion pictures and learn from them. When I came 
up here, it was ``Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.''
  But currently, watching this, I have been thinking about ``Blazing 
Saddles.'' Remember Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor, they did a movie. 
They had a city called Rock Ridge, an all-white city, lawless, 
problems. The governor appointed a handsome, sharp, young, black man to 
be the sheriff, the first black sheriff ever in Rock Ridge.
  He went there and he wanted the townsfolk to help him prepare to beat 
off the thugs and have a better city. They didn't want to join him. He 
said, ``You'd do it for Randolph Scott.'' They would have done it for 
Randolph Scott, and realizing that, they helped Cleavon Little, the 
sheriff.
  The Republicans, well, they'd do it for George Bush, and they did it 
for George Bush a lot. Mr. Speaker, life imitates art.

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